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Google Docs vs Quip: What are the differences?
Google Docs: Real-time docs collaboration. It is a word processor included as part of a free, web-based software office suite offered by Google. It brings your documents to life with smart editing and styling tools to help you easily format text and paragraphs; Quip: Messaging and documents. Combined in one place, on any device. Edit and discuss in one place. Quip combines documents with messages so you can work faster, on the web or on the go.
Google Docs and Quip can be categorized as "Document Collaboration" tools.
Instacart, Product Hunt, and New Relic are some of the popular companies that use Quip, whereas Google Docs is used by Blue Toque Software, Fortative, and Sotong Kitchen. Quip has a broader approval, being mentioned in 24 company stacks & 5 developers stacks; compared to Google Docs, which is listed in 12 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.
Pros of Google Docs
- It's simple, but expansive3
- Free2
- Fast and simple1
Pros of Quip
- Simple, reliable and fast6
- Enterprise worthy gdocs5
- Has no competitors for team documentation2
- Great UI and easy to find docs in colourful files1